Improvement in ice-cream holders and fillers



HENRY R. ROBBINS.

Improvement in Ice Cream Holders and Fillers. No.125,33 3.

Patented April 2, 1872.

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HENR a. non ems, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

I Specification forming part of Letters PatentNo. 125,333, dated A'piil 2, 1872.

Specification describing an Ice-Cream Holder and Filler, invented by HENRYlt. ROBBINS, of Baltimore, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland.

The object of this invention is to put up icecream, water-ices, jellies, and other articles of this class, in packages of such 'form that they can be conveniently carried about in the hand of a person, and eaten like a banana without the aid of a spoon, and without requiring the removal of the glove.

The invention will first be fully described and then clearly pointed out in the claims.

Figure l is a perspective view of the article,

as prepared for sale. Fig, 2; is a side View of the holder with a portion broken away and showing the filler (in dotted lines) as it appears when in use. Fig. 3is a side view of the filler with a portion broken away. Fig. 4 is a ivertical section of leak-cup. i' y A represents the ice-cream holder, made in the shape of a banana, and consistingot' the tin base-cup B, paper cylinder 0 on the inside, and tin-foil cylinder D on the outside. The former, which is simply a block of wood tr metal of suitable form, is held in cup B .while the paper and tin-foi'lare wrapped around it and to the cup. The former is then withdrawn, when the holder is ready to receive the ice-cream. F the fille'r, which consists of an elongated cup, G, provided with a plunger, H, shaped-like an invertholder is ready to be carried around and sold ,in cars, public conveyances, or wherever desired. These clips are found, by actual-experience, to cost about eighty-five cents per hundred, or less than one cent apiece. Thus they may be furnished without appreciably inereas ing the cost ofthe cream, and may be thrown away after use.

J is a leak-cup, which propose to place under the base-cup B to catch any creaur that may escape. Thebasecup B is provided with I do not confine myself to the manufacture of the base-cup of tin, as it is obvious that glass or other suitable material would answer the same purpose; neither do I confine myself to the peculiar form of cup-tiller hereinshown. Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, ters Patent, is-- 1. As a new article of manufacture, an icecream holder, consisting of a-base-cu'p, B, having a paper cylinder, 0, on the inside, and a tin-foil cylinder on the outside, as described". 2. The filler F, consisting of elongated cup G, provided with a plunger, H, and rod h, constructed as described, and adapted. to the purpose set forth. ed cup. To this plunger or piston is attached 3. The combinationfwith an ice-cream holder, of the cup J, arranged and applied as and for the purpose described.

To'the above specificationof my invention 1- have signed my hand this 8th day of February, A D. 1872.

- HENRY R. ROBBINS.

Witnesses: V

SoLoN G. Knmou,

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and desire to secure by Let-' I 

